Stellan Skarsgård

You just need him to have a physical, frightening presence.

And to keep that physical frightening presence, you can't sort of dilute him by letting him be in every scene.

You have to have him in as few scenes as possible, but immensely powerful in those scenes.

And also, they had the idea, which was very good, that he's naked the first time you see him.

And then he is in a sort of pajama, silky thing.

And they also had a lot of more like Marvel stuff armor on him, which made him look like a Marvel character.

But that would just reduce him, I said.

So what you have to do is notice that he will be more frightening naked than in those armors.

And he doesn't have to show his arms.

He doesn't have to show his guns or anything.

And that's what we did.

And that's a challenge.

And that was fun to do that kind of character that is not explained, that has no excuse for being who he is.

And that is totally without compromise.

Well, I've been very much affected by the stroke.

So I don't think as smart as I did.

And I have problems with that.

And it's annoying.

And for instance, some books, if they have, you know, one line is over the whole page without any commas, that's hard for me to read.

And I like reading.